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Oct 26, 2006
10/06
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These are some notes on the differences between the Jewish bible and the Christian "Old Testament". The order of the books is different. The names of the books are different. The leading names within the stories are different. The translation problems are considerable. What the bible says or may not say remains problematic.
Topics: bible, Christian, Jewish, translation, Roy Trumbull
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Oct 23, 2006
10/06
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These are traditional folk tales from Norway. The Bear and the Fox The Boy Who Went to the North Wind East of the Sun and West of the Moon The Giant's Mountain
Topics: audio book, Norse, Norway, folk tales
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Jan 17, 2012
01/12
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On August 30th of 1856 pro-slavery raiders attacked the abolitionist town of Ossawatomie, Kansas. The town was defended by John Brown and 40 residents with the raiders having 6 to 1 odds in their favor. The defenders had to abandon the town which was then looted and burned.
Topics: Carl Sandburg, slavery, abolitionists, John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, Ossawatomie
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Feb 22, 2010
02/10
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Roy Trumbull
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Ten New Dresses CLEAN! A twisted joke at the expense of the fat wife of a radio station GM goes wrong.
Topics: radio, fat women, armpit sweat, womens page
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May 18, 2010
05/10
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What if modern day racketeers could control rats just like the Pied Piper? Who would stop them from extortion on a grand scale?
Topics: rats, pied piper, folklore, music, extortion, rackets, Sci-Fi, Dr. David Keller, gangsters
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Aug 21, 2007
08/07
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Roy Trumbull
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This story comes from Genesis 22. It tells of Abraham taking his son to be sacrificed. More ink has been spilled over this story than any other I know. It is read during Rosh Hashanah.
Topics: Abraham, Isaac, sacrifice, bible, Genesis
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Oct 22, 2006
10/06
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Roy Trumbull
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An Indian youth dotes on his pet eagle. He is transported to another realm and there becomes an eagle himself. Then he is tempted to fly to a forbidden place and is seduced by the spirits of the dead.
Topics: audio books, Indian, Zuni, eagle, spirits, evil
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Sep 17, 2009
09/09
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Roy Trumbull
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This story was first published in Amazing stories in 1957. The text is available at www.gutenberg.org. A man is posted as an observer in a scientific bubble 10,000 light years outside our galaxy. Nothing bothers him. There is quite a lot of it.
Topics: paranoid, Sci-Fi, danger, imagination
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Jan 12, 2008
01/08
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These are classic stories collected by William Elliot Griffis. The text is available at www.gutenberg.org .Search author for Griffis.
Topics: Wales, Welsh, Fairy tales, fairies, folklore, Griffis
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Feb 13, 2009
02/09
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A classic tall tale from the southwest about the cowboy Pecos Bill.
Topics: Pecos Bill, tornado, tall tales
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Apr 5, 2010
04/10
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Two grifters decide to introduce the phonograph to South America. They meet the assistant to the President whose graft is that of being the only honest man in the country. They become involved in his attempt to put down a revolution before it starts. The story contains racial slurs of which I've removed the most objectionable. I don't know whether it is worse to leave in the remainder or to join the collective amnesia that tries to pretend such language couldn't be heard on every street corner....
Topics: phonograph, O.Henry, South America, humor, audio book
Rachel shares her sock knitting secrets, and she's finally finished with her Log Cabin Noro blanket! Natalie obsesses over two very large bumps of red wool. Oh dear! Rachel's Chat on the Fine Art of Knitting Socks Top downsources for good design: Cookie A's Sock Innovation and Nancy Bush's Knitting Vintage Socks, Folk Socks, Knitting on the RoadToe up short row toes and heels Judy's Magic Cast on for toe up socks Sources for good design: Wendy D. Johnson and Chrissy Gardiner Knitty article on...
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Aug 31, 2006
08/06
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Roy Trumbull
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The place is the midwest. The time is the early days of World War I. The young men are enlisting and their girl friends are left behind. Tessie Golden works in a watch factory and is sassy and confident. But when her boy friend comes home during a break in training she finds he is learning French. It dawns on her that when he comes home from the war he will be a diferent person but she will be the same. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org. Search authors for Ferber, Edna.
Topics: audio books, fiction, ferber, hen lit, love, romance
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Aug 24, 2010
08/10
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A client with money hires a detective to bring him a time traveler so he can learn the secrets of the future and put off his own death. This leads to a trip to Octoberfest and a triple hangover.
Topics: Sci-Fi, Mack Reynolds, Octoberfest, time travel, hangover
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Dec 15, 2009
12/09
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These American Indian Tales were collected and edited by Cornelius Mathews and first published in 1869. The narrator is Roy Trumbull. The text is available at www.gutenberg.org.
Topics: American Indian, Indian, folklore, fairy tales, children's stories, audio book
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Jan 8, 2007
01/07
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Winter is a coming in and Soapy must leave his park bench and seek refuge on the Island (Riker's) where the cells are warm and the meals regular. Try as he might he just can't seem to get arrested. A modern gentleman seeking to emmulate the fictional Soapy appeared in an article in the 2nd Business Section of the New Yorks Times for Sunday Jan 7, 2007. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org
Topics: Soapy, O.Henry, Cop and Anthem
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Sep 4, 2006
09/06
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Roy Trumbull
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The Mary Rogers was stuck for seven weeks at 50 degrees south off Cape Horn trying to pick up the wind that would carry her up the Pacific. The captain was desperate. The price for the wind was one life and then another.
Topics: audio books, Jack London, fiction, sailing, ocean, wind, murder
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Oct 18, 2006
10/06
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George Ade was a newspaper man from Indiana who made his mark in Chicago writing about the common man. His "Fables In Slang" elevated him above the fate of scribes (news reporters) and into the rarified atmosphere of syndication. The Fable of Why Sweetie Flew the Track The Fable of Why Essie's Tall Friend Got the Fresh Air The Fable of the Michigan Counterfeit Who Wasn't One Thing or the Other The Fable of the Corporation Director and the Mislaid Ambition
Topics: audio books, humor, satire, George Ade, Fables In Slang
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May 21, 2010
05/10
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The question that has been raised by every parent since the dawn of indoor plumbing is now asked of a Martian.
Topics: Martian, bathroom, bath tub, Sci-Fi, audio Book, Fritz Leiber, professor
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Oct 27, 2006
10/06
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This is a reading of chapter 17 of "The Education of Henry Adams" It sets the political scene for the period of the Grant Administration and gives you a look at a Congress that didn't work then just as it doesn't work now. I will admit that Adams is an acquired taste. His conceit of life circumstances providing his education wears a bit. But give your ears the benefit of the doubt and stay with it. There are a couple of tasty zingers to be found.
Topics: audio book, President Grant, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
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Jan 3, 2007
01/07
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This is a tale in which a soldier is allowed to have his pick from three underground treasures guarded by huge dogs if only he will bring back a tinderbox. The secret of the tinderbox is that whoever has it can command the dogs to do his bidding. Naturally the soldier falls in love with a beautiful princess who complicates matters.
Topics: tinderbox, Andersen, fairy tale, dogs, treasure, children's stories
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Sep 16, 2008
09/08
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copyright 2008 by Roy Trumbull A young lady is proud of the fact she was named Miss Moose Meat at a beauty contest in Alaska. In fact she never fails to mention the fact, much to the chagrin of her brother. It acts as a boy friend screening process. If a guy is still interested after he hears the tale, then maybe he's the one.
Topics: Alaska, moose, satire, love, beauty contest, love, college, Roy Trumbull
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Sep 29, 2006
09/06
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Having gotten those two or three page notices from almost every business or service I deal with, the absurdity of it got to me and this was the result.
Topics: privacy notice, satire, government, Roy Trumbull
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May 6, 2009
05/09
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In the 22nd century violence has been all but bred out of humans. The Luna penal colony is culled to find four people who might commit mass murder to save mankind from a deadly plague.
Topics: plague, murder, sci-fi, murderers, space travel, missles
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Aug 17, 2011
08/11
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A grandfather explains to his grandson what a tape recorder was.
Topics: tape recorder, magnetic tape, editing, Ampex 600
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Apr 18, 2007
04/07
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Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum. This is the third of the Oz books. Dorothy is back again and we meet Bellina the hen, Tiktok the machine man, the Hungry Tiger, the Wheelers, and the Nome King. She is reunited with the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. Dorothy helps Ozma, the new ruler of Oz, rescue the royal family of Ev from enchantment. The voice of Bellina comes from my on the job experience tending a hen house when I was a boy. The text for this story may be found at...
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Topics: Ozma, Oz, Baum, children's stories, fantasy
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May 9, 2010
05/10
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Roy Trumbull
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If you lived in a trailer would you trade it for a spacious house with all the modern conveniences? Would it matter if it was in another galaxy?
Topics: aliens, CPA, Frank Herbert, Sci-Fi, tax collection
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Aug 25, 2011
08/11
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Roy Trumbull
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Future events at wartime are oft foretold by dreams and wondrous signs. This is a collection of such stories which ends with the Revolutionary War battle of Germantown. The story comes from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land by Charles M. Skinner.
Topics: Germantown, Revolutionary Way, dreams, wondrous signs
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Dec 11, 2010
12/10
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Roy Trumbull
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A fairy in the service of Dame Fortune gifts mankind with a pair of shoes that will take their wearer to any time and place he desires. They are left in the foyer along with other rain boots during a party. Another fairy who is Care doubts they will be of benefit.
Topics: Hans Christian Andersen, fantasy, shoes of fortune
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Oct 10, 2006
10/06
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This is a collection of 15 tales written by Hans Christian Andersen that range from light whimsy to totally black stories. At one end is The Happy Family and The False Collar at the other is The Little Match Girl and The Red Shoes. The movie "The Red Shoes" was inspired by this story but doesn't follow the story line.
Topics: audio books, Hans Christian Andersen, fairy tales, children's stories
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Sep 11, 2007
09/07
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Roy Trumbull
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This short story by Bret Harte tells of an overheard conversation in a Pullman sleeping-car about the rise and fall of an undertaker. This story was abridged.
Topics: Bret Harte, humor, undertaker, Pullman car
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Jul 25, 2009
07/09
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Roy Trumbull
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An American Indian tale. An Indian befriends a gray mole and they travel to the far water. The trees talk to them and tell them what they are useful for. A magic canoe takes them to the mole's home on an island where they set a snare for the sun who has scorched the Indian's deer skin.
Topics: Indian, gray mole, folklore, audio book, fiction
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Oct 6, 2006
10/06
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Roy Trumbull
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This is the biblical account of Joseph which begins in chapter 37 and goes to the end of Genesis (ch 50). It occupies over a quarter of Genesis. It is one of those stories even an atheist needs to know as literary allusions to it are so plentiful. Even 3000 years later politicians still haven't figured out that putting something away in times of plenty against times of scarcity is a good idea. This is a family drama in which children in Jacob's plural marriage have a pecking order. It's a very...
Topics: audio books, bible, Genesis, Joseph, Jacob, Israel, bible stories, Egypt
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Dec 10, 2006
12/06
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Americans love rogues. O.Henry gave us Jimmy Valentine, the master safecracker with a heart of gold. Jimmy has fallen in love, gone straight, become a successful businessman and now must risk all and crack one more safe to save a life. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org
Topics: crime, safecracker, O.Henry, Jimmy Valentine, audio books, fiction, love
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Dec 13, 2006
12/06
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This was one of the O.Henry stories in the 1952 film "O.Henry's Full House". It is about a pair of crooks trying to raise a grubstake for a big swindle. They kidnap the son of a rich man in a rural Alabama town and it proves to be their downfall. In the film version Sam was played by Fred Allen and Bill by Oscar Levant. This file was updated Mar 2011. The file that was replaced had an incomplete ending. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org
Topics: O.Henry, Red Chief, humor, audio books, fiction, crooks
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Oct 17, 2006
10/06
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These are two chapters (16 & 24) that are concerned with the British attempts to take Fort Duquesne. (Later it will be known as Pittsburg.) In chapter 16 a young George Washington is an aide to General Braddock. Braddock with superior forces and equipment, will preside over of one of the most humiliating defeats suffered by the British in the colonial period. It costs Braddock his life. In witnessing British hubris and tactical blunders, I can imagine Washington taking notes that later...
Topics: audio book, George Washington, French, Fort Duquesne, history, colonial America, General Braddock
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May 21, 2011
05/11
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Years after the Xenobots had been vanquished and their home planet destroyed, the human-Ahmanyan alliance discovered, to its dismay, that the Second Xenobot War was not, in fact, truly over. The Xenobot's great weapon that had worked so efficiently in the long ago War of the First Races continued to run on its own, but like so much of the Xenobot's technology, it was wearing out. A sudden collapse of this technology could bring about a catastrophe of unprecedented, perhaps galaxy-wide...
Topics: Starman, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Xenobots, Tharsos, First Races
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May 11, 2007
05/07
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Roy Trumbull
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If someone read your future and said you were going to commit murder, would you believe him? If so, would you commit the murder now or put it off until later? Oscar Wilde's satire of late Victorian England, with its supernatural fads and Lady Windermere's social lions, takes us on a delightful spin. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org
Topics: Wilde, Windermere, murder, humor, Savile
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Feb 21, 2012
02/12
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A Spanish trader has his way with the wife of an Indian brave and drives her mad. Upon the braves return his wife commits suicide and he seeks revenge. He kidnaps the trader and ties him on a horse face to face with the corpse of his victim. They ride the desert until he too is driven mad. This story comes from "Myths and Legends of Our Own Land" by Charles M. Skinner.
Topics: American Indians, traders, madness, revenge
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Oct 23, 2006
10/06
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Roy Trumbull
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Of the many stories I have done this one is a puzzle. It has been downloaded over a thousand times from my site. I'll be interested to see what happens to it on the Internet Archive.
Topics: fairy tales, Annie the Goose Girl, children's stories
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Feb 22, 2012
02/12
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Roy Trumbull
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I enjoy exploring the work of poets. Some poems become dated while others written long ago could have been written yesterday. That is the case here. Sandburg comments on the fate of civilizations and the fate of those seeking to stave off the inevitable.
Topics: Carl Sandburg, civilizations, decline, futility, poetry
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Jul 24, 2009
07/09
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There are many of these traditional fables and most teach a lesson. This is but a small sample of the many fables attributed to Aesop.
Topics: Aesop, fables, folklore, audio books, fiction, morals
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Dec 5, 2010
12/10
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Lois Rather was my cousin and a life long writer who greatly enjoyed doing research. She and her husband Cliff started the Rather Press in 1969. All the type was set by hand. They were well known and admired by those with similar enterprises. Some were dismayed that their earliest projects employed staples. They were taught how to stitch a binding and did so. Lois found that in 1889 the 23 year old Rudyard Kipling had gotten to England by way of America and she tracked down all the information...
Topics: Rudyard Kipling, San Francisco, Rather Press, Lois Rather
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Mar 6, 2012
03/12
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Roy Trumbull
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A father/son team have committed a burglary and are dividing the spoils when the father holds back a fancy music box and denies he has it. This causes the son to end their partnership. He accomplishes this with a handy hatchet which he later uses on his mother. An insurance policy is taken out on the house to enrich the son when he burns it down. The fire is also intended to dispose of his parents bodies. The story is an example of Bierce black humor.
Topics: murder, arson, humor, Ambrose Bierce
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Jan 20, 2007
01/07
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Roy Trumbull
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Amrose Bierce was a newspaper reporter and writer with a very dark twisted sense of humor. He went to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution and was never heard from again. His story was told in the movie "Old Gringo".
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Topics: Bierce, Fiend's Delight, humor
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Sep 2, 2006
09/06
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In the ballroom of the grand hotel on New Year's Eve we pretty much know the scene. On the other side of the kitchen door, will a love gone sour sweeten before the night is over? The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org. Search authors for Ferber, Edna.
Topics: audio books, fiction, ferber, hen lit, love, romance
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Oct 21, 2006
10/06
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I found this Zuni folk tale at http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/mlcal.txt . It is from: "Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest" compiled and edited by Katharine Berry Judson
Topics: audio books, Zuni, Indian, folklore, corn
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Oct 1, 2006
10/06
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The Elephant's Child is from Kipling's Just So stories. The mangled words are built into the text. The first time I read curtiosity I said curiosity and then I realized he was playing with something you hear children do all the time.
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Topics: children's stories, Kipling, elephants, Just So
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Feb 25, 2010
02/10
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One would think that the way an FM station makes money is by selling commercials. For decades the owners have made money by selling the station to a bigger fool. Now the biggest fools own all the stations. This story goes back to the early 1960s and how it all began.
Topics: FM radio, trade-outs, due bills, radio schools, limited partnerships, adult content
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Sep 27, 2006
09/06
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Roy Trumbull
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This forecast is based upon existing trends and the certainty that lobbyists will keep anything useful from ever coming out of Washington, D.C..
Topics: weather, global warming, humor, Roy Trumbull
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